Letter to President of Pakistan

2nd April, 2006

Your Excellency,

Please allow me to congratulate you on Pakistan's fabulous progress in the course of your dedicated leadership, There is also no doubt about the capabilities of the people employed by you to do the various jobs.

However, I would like to share my concerns about some of the national issues that deserve high priority.

1. Technical Manpower: The best part of our technical manpower is working abroad, and there is severe shortage of experienced workers especially in the construction industry. As industrial expansion takes place, the shortage will extend to all sectors. Private sector is very unlikely to invest in basic technical education as the students belonging to poor families would not be able to pay much. It may be a good idea to promote professional trade unions and involve them in training.

2. National Language: The Koreans once came to Pakistan to learn from its progress. Now they have overtaken us. Having worked closely with them, I find that the most important reason for them doing better than us is that they chose to use Korean language in all walks of life. In Pakistan less than 5% people who know English can participate in high commerce, or even read SROs, bank forms, telephone directories or send emails. In Korea, Taiwan, Thailand etc. 100% can. If we can produce technical literature in Urdu and enroll people who are already working in industry without qualifications, we may produce up to 30,000 experienced engineers in say five years.

3. Nuclear Defense: Possession of nuclear weapons increases the risk of nuclear war and tensions, unless nuclear shelters are available. I can arrange technical manuals for building facilities to resist nuclear attack.

4. Democracy: We may be able to produce better democratic leaders for future if we prepare a code of conduct for student union activities in schools and colleges and show role models on television.

5. Religion: I have already emailed to Sheikh Rasheed my article on the Basic Principles of Islam. It is also available on my website www.pkblogs.com/naseemmahnavi

6. Sacrilege: About time GOP started issuing travel advisories warning people against traveling to countries where they may be subjected to "Psychological Terrorism".

I shall be extremely willing to help in the matters highlighted above.

Yours faithfully,

Mohammad Nasim.